it seems bubble and squeak is all the rage at the moment, another friend made bubble and squeak to go with a fish cake and a poached egg, I’m quite certain I’m going to steal his idea in the near future..

I was half watching Saturday lunch on the BBC1 last weekend between bouts of hoovering, I think it’s called that, it has that bloke, James Martin or someone on it, anyway someone must have been doing a recipe with bubble and squeak because although I don’t recall seeing what they did, I do remember thinking it was a good idea and I should put some potatoes in the oven for it.

Usually bubble and squeak is made of leftovers, but as I didn’t have any I started from scratch, I was already going to use up some turkey breast, so

Christmas bubble and squeak

seemed like the obvious choice, I reckon it’ll be just as nice with leftovers, which is quite handy as it’s coming up to Christmas anyway, I used cold baked potatoes.

I boiled the veg and then chopped them up with the potato

mixed them together in a big pile and roasted the whole thing in the oven while I was cooking some stuffing, pigs and the turkey

it was actually rather simple to assemble, the bubble and squeak, some stuffing

which I topped with the turkey

and then some bread sauce, gravy and parsnip ribbons

Not only did it look bloody great, even if I say so myself

it tasted bloody gorgeous..

I had quite a lot left over..

so the following day I made

Bubble and squeak lentil curry soup

Which, my friend said on my FB page, “sounds bizarrely delicious” and it was, it was also quite lazy, Mr 5 wanted a tin of tomato soup and as I always keep some kind of soup in the cupboard I decided to use this Heinz Lentil soup as the base for my dinner

I had some rice left over from something which I’d froze, so I added that to the soup

and mixed in a bit of chicken I had in the fridge, but without it would made a great vegetarian dinner

I simmered it until it began to thicken a bit more and then heaped it with the twice baked bubble and a couple of bhargis.

it seems bubble and squeak is all the rage at the moment, another friend made bubble and squeak to go with a fish cake and a poached egg, I’m quite certain I’m going to steal his idea in the near future..

Although technically it’s not a broth, but that’s as good a description as any.

Having bought a family pack of turkey breast meat the other day I’m now trying to think of interesting things to do with it, this was quite similar to the Tuscan bread soup and the Lebanese lamb I’ve made before, as in, it was on bread, it was really easy, didn’t take much effort which was handy as I’d been out all afternoon and by the time I got in, then took the dog out, the last thing I wanted to do was think.
I picked up a cheese and red onion foccacia while I was in Morrisons on the way home..

So this was

Turkey and bean Foccacia broth:

Although technically it’s not a broth, but that’s as good a description as any.

I sweated off some peppers, onions and button mushrooms with some Schwartz Spanish seasoning, then added the turkey

added half a can of mixed beans, a small tub of passata I had left from the curry on Monday and some water

A splosh of white wine, then I simmered it until it had reduced and thickened.

I cut the bread up, sprinkled a little Parmesan and oil on it and baked it for a few minutes

and then put some bread in a bowl, topped it with broth and some more bread